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oapen-20.500.12657-229872024-03-22T19:23:35Z Sharpening the Haze Carabelli, Giulia Jovanović, Miloš Kirbis, Annika Walton, Jeremy F. Visual Essays on Empire Art-Practice Visual cultures Post-colonialism Post-imperialism thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology This volume presents ten visual essays that reflect on the historical, cultural and socio-political legacies of empires. Drawing on a variety of visual genres and forms, including photographs, illustrated advertisements, stills from site-specific art performances and films, and maps, the book illuminates the contours of empire’s social worlds and its political legacies through the visual essay. The guiding, titular metaphor, sharpening the haze, captures our commitment to frame empire from different vantage points, seeking focus within its plural modes of power. We contend that critical scholarship on empires would benefit from more creative attempts to reveal and confront empire. Broadly, the essays track a course from interrogations of imperial pasts to subversive reinscriptions of imperial images in the present, even as both projects inform each author’s intervention. 2020-02-06 09:25:21 2020-04-01T08:58:43Z 2020-04-01T08:58:43Z 2020 book 1007174 9781911529644; 9781911529668; 9781911529675 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22987 eng application/pdf n/a sharpening-the-haze.pdf https://doi.org/10.5334/bcd Ubiquity Press 10.5334/bcd 10.5334/bcd d5069e3b-8e22-4e18-9d2d-558a5f96d506 9781911529644; 9781911529668; 9781911529675 192 London open access
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This volume presents ten visual essays that reflect on the historical, cultural and socio-political legacies of empires. Drawing on a variety of visual genres and forms, including photographs, illustrated advertisements, stills from site-specific art performances and films, and maps, the book illuminates the contours of empire’s social worlds and its political legacies through the visual essay. The guiding, titular metaphor, sharpening the haze, captures our commitment to frame empire from different vantage points, seeking focus within its plural modes of power. We contend that critical scholarship on empires would benefit from more creative attempts to reveal and confront empire. Broadly, the essays track a course from interrogations of imperial pasts to subversive reinscriptions of imperial images in the present, even as both projects inform each author’s intervention.
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